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Wordpress &amp; Sproose Facebook Applications

Wordpress has created a Facebook application that lets you post to your blog directly from Facebook, and access much of your blog content from Facebook as well. You can publish posts, add bookmarks and see your blog stats. Excerpts from your five most recent blog entries will show up on your Facebook profile as well as your news feeds, all containing direct links to the actual Wordpress blog. You can also see which of your Facebook friends have Wordpress blogs, and keep up with their postings as well. There are a few bugs yet to be worked out, but this should be among the more useful applications for Facebook. At least for bloggers like me.

Sproose, the human powered search engine, has also launched a Facebook app called "Best WebPages." You can recommend sites and vote on sites recommended by others from within Facebook. You'll see a thumbnail image of the site, as well as the user that recommended it. Add in your own comments for sites, and find new users through this application. It doesn't look like this app will display your recommended sites on your profile or news feeds just yet, but those would both be great ways to share recommendations with friends.

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